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Wired has a gushing review of the Mad Max reboot:
Lightning rarely strikes twice, so going into Mad Max: Fury Road it's hard not to dwell on the words of Max Rockatansky himself: "You know hope is a mistake. If you can't fix what's broken, you'll go insane." The thing is, Max is wrong. Fury Road is everything fans could have hoped for.
It's also a very necessary movie right now. Fury Road is not only a reminder of what big, beautiful action movies can and should look like, it's a reminder that they can have a point. That spectacle can have substance. That, in a cinematic landscape where we're still fighting over the roles women get in movies, a new Ripley might just be waiting in the next trailer you see. (In Fury Road's case, that's Charlize Theron in a heart-stoppingly badass performance as Imperator Furiosa.)
Cars, guns, desert, and 1980's style post-apocalyptic fashion.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @02:56PM
People today have been conditioned by state-sponsored and special-interest-groups sponsored propaganda telling so many lies so many times that they refuse to (and can no more) think for themselves. For anything requiring any thinking they turn on the TV to hear what they should think.
People have been enslaved by media and this era is the one where men are under attack. As for the testosterone-filled guy flicks, Hollywood refuses to make them. Instead what you will see is men fully covered with makeup (and lipstick) and sitting there looking good. Inner (and outer) strength is no longer considered important and men and women are said to be exactly the same (save for plumbing), which they are not. As said here, when SHTF men will very quickly take over. Nature wins every time, and listens to no lies.
For those who liked the movie: Would you still remember it ten years from now?
I thought not.